As part of the International Prize for the Best Audio Recording of Russian Academic Music «Pure Sound,» the Second International Symposium «The Sound Recording Industry of Academic Music» will be held in Moscow on October 15-17, 2021. Russian Musical Union is the organizer (RMS).
The forthcoming symposium is the country’s largest industry event focused to current challenges in the music business. Its participation will include top Russian and international specialists in sound engineering and music production: They will convene to exchange experience and build collaboration, to debate the industry’s major challenges and potential solutions, and to create ideas for the growth of the domestic sound recording business of academic music.
Among the symposium’s speakers are world-renowned professionals: Udo Potraz, sound engineer of the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg (Germany); Erdo Groot, director, producer, and balance specialist of the record label Polyhymnia International (Netherlands); and Maria Soboleva, professor at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, the Moscow Conservatory, and web site the Institute of Contemporary Art. Mikhail Spassky, web page sound engineer of the Moscow Conservatory; Viktor Osadchev, director of the sound engineering department of the Russian Academy of Music named after the Gnesins; Andrey Levin, sound engineer «Mosfilm,» and others.
«The Symposium is a fantastic chance for recording industry professionals to share information, ideas, and opinions on how to enhance sound quality in the twenty-first century,» says Udo Potraz.
The forum program is vast and diverse. It includes a business component: a scientific and practical conference titled «Sound engineering — the profession of the future,» which will be followed by the publication of a collection of materials; a round table discussion on vocational education in the field of sound engineering; public discussions on copyright issues; and interaction between a sound engineer and a composer, performer, producer, and label.
There will also be talks on classical sound engineering, concert recording, orchestral technology in the film business, and master courses on studio recording, archive recording restoration, vinyl mastering, and sound engineering in electroacoustic music. Participants in the symposium will be treated to fascinating technical tours of the Moscow Conservatory, the Bolshoi Theater, Novaya Opera, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Helikon-Opera, Mosfilm studio, and CineLab.
At the World Trade Center site, a major display of professional and sound equipment will be set up, with Neumann, Nikfi, Oktava, and other businesses demonstrating new items in the field of sound technology. The conference will also feature a concert in Rachmaninov Hall by the Moscow Conservatory’s Center for Electroacoustic Music.
Because it includes a block on education in the field of sound engineering, the international forum will become a one-of-a-kind platform not only for practicing sound engineers and sound technicians, employees of sound workshops of music and drama theaters, concert halls, recording companies, and film studios, but also for teachers and students of higher and secondary educational institutions.
National Foundation for the Support of Copyright Holders, Radio Orpheus, International Music Council (IMC), European Music Council (EMC), Radio Russia, All-Russian Congress of Sound Engineers of Music Programs, Kultura newspaper, information portal «Kulturomania», information agency InterMedia, magazine «Musical life», magazine «Sound engineer», audio equipment store Dr. Head are the Pure Sound Prize and International Symposium partners.